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Holosync technology As we slow the brain wave patterns from beta to alpha to theta to delta, there is a corresponding increase in balance between the two hemispheres of the brain. This more balanced brain state is called brain synchrony, or brain synchronization. This balancing phenomenon was noted in early EEG studies of experienced meditators in the 1970s. ... various mental abilities and experiences are induced naturally in these different brain wave patterns, and many of these abilities and experiences are quite remarkable. Robert Monroe of the Monroe Institute reported that inducing brain wave patterns through the creation of binaural beats in the brain caused a wide range of effects, including "focusing of attention, suggestibility, problem solving, creativity, memory, and learning... sleep induction, pain control... and enhanced learning..." (13). |
 Dr. Lester Fehmi, director of the Princeton Biofeedback Research Institute, has said that hemispheric synchronization represents "the maximum efficiency of information transport through the whole brain... you tend to feel more unified with the experience... and the scope of your awareness is widened a great deal, so that you’re including many more experiences at the same time... you function more intuitively." (14) > from article The Science Behind Holosync
and Other Neurotechnologies - on site of |
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 .. Thanks to the Bush campaign's unremitting fear-mongering, millions of voters are reacting not with their linear and logical left brain but with their lizard brain and their more emotional right brain. What's more, people in a fog of fear are more likely to respond to someone whose primary means of communication is in the nonverbal realm, neither logical nor language-based. (Sound like any presidential candidate you know?) And that's why Bush is still standing. It's not about left wing vs. right wing; it's about left brain vs. right brain. Deep in the brain lies the amygdala, an almond-sized region that generates fear. When this fear state is activated, the amygdala springs into action. Before you are even consciously aware that you are afraid, your lizard brain responds by clicking into survival mode. No time to assess the situation, no time to look at the facts, just: fight, flight or freeze. |
 .. For an object lesson in how to get those lizard brains leaping, look no further than the vice-presidential debate. Arianna Huffington - > from
one of her columns : Appealing
To Our Lizard Brains:
photo above also from ariannaonline.com
The
Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain
The
Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of
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| Robert
Ornstein's new book, The
Right Mind, deals with the nature and functions of the right
hemisphere.
It is reminiscent of Plato's discussion in which he distinguishes between logistikon, the rational or logical manifestations of the mind (corresponding to the processes of the left hemisphere of the brain); and nous, the intuitive aspect of the mind. Western research and cultural patterns have tended to rotate around the functions of the left hemisphere with its emphasis on logic, grammatical rules, and so forth. What, then, is left for the other hemisphere, obviously also a necessary part of the brain? Ornstein visualizes it as the agent enabling the bringing together of input into a whole. |
 > from Book Review by I. M. Oderberg from Northwest Branch of The Theosophical Society site |
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| There
exists ample evidence that any
society acquiring the written word experiences explosive changes. For
the
most part, these changes can be characterized as progress. But one
pernicious
effect of literacy has gone largely unnoticed: writing subliminally
fosters
a patriarchal outlook. Writing of any kind, but especially its
alphabetic
form, diminishes feminine values and with them, women's power in the
culture.
...
I propose that a holistic, simultaneous, synthetic, and concrete view of the world are the essential characteristics of a feminine outlook; linear, sequential, reductionist, and abstract thinking defines the masculine. Although these represent opposite perceptual modes, every individual is generously endowed with all the features of both. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess : The Conflict Between Word and Image by Leonard Shlain |
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| Global
brain function may be characterized as two modes of ideation in
competition.
We start out life with probably something closer to no cerebral
dominance
or slight right-brain dominance but our modern-day cultures develop, or
overdevelop, our left-brain faculties. ...
Facial recognition.. is performed in your right hemisphere. Speech and metaphor, calculation and visualization, perception of phonemes and perception of emotions, all of these tasks are strongly lateralized. Left hemisphere structures mediate positive emotions such as mania and right brain mechanisms underlie most negative emotions. ... Occasionally the two modes of processing are complementary, supplementary, but often the hemispheres act like feuding youngsters, ignoring the other, interfering with each other. ... Most of us rely on verbal communication and logical thinking to proceed through life and society. But the verbal, analytical dominance is learned, not intrinsic to our bicameral neural architecture. In fact right brain dominance may be our pre-linguistic state. ... |
 .. .. Such a mode of processing may spark creativity or it may lead to disturbed (clinically so) behaviors. from
Dominance Failure by David Kaiser in newsletter
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The Power of Your Other Hand : A Course in Channeling the Inner Wisdom of the Right Brain
by Lucia Capacchione, PhD"Capacchione holds degrees in art and psychology and is a pioneer of self-therapy and healing through journal writing and drawing." [from book jacket]
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| The
Alexithymia construct comprises a constellation of salient features:
major
difficulty in identifying, differentiating and describing feelings;
major
difficulty in distinguishing between feelings and the bodily sensations
of emotional arousal; a markedly deficient capacity for imagination and
fantasy; and a cognitive style of concrete preoccupation with the
minutiae
of the external world. ...
The left cerebral hemisphere in right-handed individuals is at an advantage for verbal and analytic funtions; the right for the nonverbal spatial and holistic processing mode, including the perception and nonverbal expression of emotion as well as imagery. Brain research provides increasing evidence of an interhemispheric transfer deficit in alexithymia, resulting in poor integration of the information processing of the two cerebral hemispheres. |
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Left Brain, Right Brain : Perspective from Cognitive Neuroscience by Sally P. Springer et al.
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Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology - by Fredric Schiffer Publishers Weekly : Taking cues from 19th-century English physician Arthur Wigan (whose seemingly normal friend, it turned out when autopsied, had only a single brain hemisphere), contemporary neuroscience asks whether normal people, who possess both left and right brains, can be said to be literally of two minds.
Schiffer, an associate attending psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and a Harvard Medical School psychiatry instructor, believes the answer is a resounding yes...
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**more books:
Guy Claxton. Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind : How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less
An argument for the seductive proposal that our unconscious intelligence is more productive than we think. Claxton, a visiting professor of psychology and education at Bristol University in England, builds his thesis on the dichotomy between the privileged mode of intelligence: conscious, result-oriented problem-solving, and the less respectable unconscious intelligence. This unconscious, or "undermind,'' approaches problems playfully, examines the questions themselves, and keeps us in touch with our poetic nature. [Kirkus Reviews]Betty Edwards. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Carla Hannaford, PhD. The Dominance Factor : How Knowing Your Dominant Eye, Ear, Brain, Hand, & Foot Can Improve Your Learning
Ned Herrmann. The Whole Brain Business Book
[reader:] At the core of Ned Herrmann's most recent book lies his belief that the functioning of the human brain is driven by a four-quadrant interconnected set of mental processing modes. These four thinking styles, says Herrmann, originate in the brain's left and right cerebral hemispheres, and in the left and right half limbic systems, each resulting in significantly different and distinct behavioral characteristics in human beings. How this complex brain interaction determines thinking mode dominance and thinking style preferences, and how individuals and organizations can benefit from such understanding, are the main themes of this highly thought provoking...Robert Ornstein. The Right Mind : Making Sense of the Hemispheres
"I began this book with a pretty firm prejudice," says Robert Ornstein of his survey of the two halves of the human brain. "I believed that after two decades of research we'd find ... that there might be little to distinguish the two sides." Instead, he concluded that "the division of the mind is profound," with deep roots in evolution, embryonic development, and society. It is profound, but not simplistic: Ornstein shows how the right hemisphere is neither a chimpanzee-like moron nor a mystical genius. It provides the context, the big picture, while the left hemisphere keeps track of the details. [Amazon.com]
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